The look on Dean’s face when he saw Danny standing up to his knees in the thick grey estuary mud, doubled over as he sifted through the glutinous mass with his fingers to extract the worms, said it all. Like many sea anglers Dean lives a fair distance from the coast, in his case at least an hours drive from the nearest viable bait beds, so straight away he was looking at both a time and fuel cost when planning a dig.ĭean wanted to learn how to dig lug and rag, which come from different types of ground, so Brian arranged for two top bait diggers to show him the ropes.ĭanny Westacott has dug harbour ragworm – maddies or mudworm, as we call them in South Wales – all of his life and he agreed to reveal a few trade secrets on the famous Loughor estuary, one of the area’s best flounder venues. We introduced him to Brian Davies, of Country Stores tackle shop in Gowerton, and a team of professional bait diggers. With the frustration levels rising he wrote to us. Lacking technique and knowledge his bait bucket didn’t over-flow. Yeah, right!ĭean has been itching to get dug in, but was left scratching his head when he tried. There’s more to do-it-yourself bait digging than simply turning over a patch of beach during low water.Īfter all, lurking just below the surface are vast colonies of wriggling ragworms and lugworms. They also know that once they get the hang of it, the bait on their hooks will be the best and freshest available.īut let’s get real. Many sea anglers see digging their own bait as being the solution to help reduce the cost of a day’s fishing. When Dean Roderick wrote to Sea Angler magazine asking how to dig his own lugworms and ragworms for bait, they took him out to the beach to show him how it’s done…
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